Go to Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0800612442/sr=8-1/qid=1152741046/ref=sr_1_1/102-8251196-8466558?ie=UTF8)
or your local library, and get a copy of the book "A Marxist Looks At Jesus" by Milan Machoveč (titled "Jesus for Atheists" in German). Machoveč was a Czech atheist, and the book is a both a brilliant summary of objective historical-Jesus scholarship, and a profound appreciation of the universal significance of Jesus' teaching. Are you open-minded enough to read it?
2006-07-12 10:54:59 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
sure thing.
right after you go and read some Hindu religious texts.
you're not being hypocritical, asking others to read YOUR religious texts without being willing to reciprocate, are you????
2006-07-12 11:00:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
I agree. Jesus, though a Messenger of God, was no savior. He didn't die for anyone's sins. He was no son of God, in the literal sense of the meaning. We're all sons (and duaghters) of God, figuratively of course. Jesus was sent down to deliver the message of Monotheism and to instill order and justice back into society, by way of divine intervention. His was a mission to be the model of how mankind should live.
2006-07-12 11:03:36 · answer #2 · answered by Lunabello 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
are you trying to get us to stop being atheist? just because i don't believe in a god doesn't mean i don't have a theory. mine is evolution, and will always be. and yes i would read the book because i'm very open minded, but also very broke, lol. and even tho i'm atheist, i have read the bible, so people can't say i haven't seen their side of the argument. ok? <3 jordan
2006-07-12 10:59:43 · answer #3 · answered by nicole 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do I need to? I mean I can pretty much guess at it's content, and probably sum it up in one sentence. "God isn't real but jesus's teachings promote love and good things regardless". Right? There, I saved everyone time and money.
2006-07-12 10:59:05 · answer #4 · answered by The Resurrectionist 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The GodFather has an furnish you won't be able to refuse. nicely, you could, yet he will make your life hell in case you do! "atheism is as undesirable as homicide".... lol They throw such issues as that out because they have not some thing left. They see you've pronounced how stupid the perception is that a god that performs disguise n search for expects you to believe genuinely and in case you do not, he will deliver you to his torture chamber. appears like some thing a baby ought to do... "in case you do not do as I say, i receives my daddy to conquer you up"
2016-11-01 22:51:16 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I will read it. I don't consider myself an athiest but I'm wary of most organized religions. However, I don't think it's the existence of Jesus that athiests doubt; it's that he was God's son.
2006-07-12 10:59:23 · answer #6 · answered by Carlito Sway 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that Jesus for Athiests would be like a fairy tale or one of those Aesop stories. Good lessons, but it's all fiction to them. Sounds like a good idea for them to read. Any true athiest would read it.
2006-07-12 11:00:39 · answer #7 · answered by ♥ katie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The problem lay in the fact that Jesus does not, nor did he exist.
2006-07-12 11:01:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have no problem with jesus existing. It's the whole savior thing that gives me problems.
2006-07-12 10:58:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have no problem with Christ, it's the Christians that drive me nuts.
2006-07-12 11:01:12 · answer #10 · answered by Kenny ♣ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋